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Towards Promises Unfulfilled: Applying Sixteen Years Of Trade And Environmental Lessons To The Pending U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, Travis A. Brooks
Towards Promises Unfulfilled: Applying Sixteen Years Of Trade And Environmental Lessons To The Pending U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, Travis A. Brooks
Global Business & Development Law Journal
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Innovations In Governance: A Functional Typology Of Private Governance Institutions, Tracey M. Roberts
Innovations In Governance: A Functional Typology Of Private Governance Institutions, Tracey M. Roberts
Tracey M Roberts
Communities are increasingly looking to private governance institutions, rather than formal government, to set public policy and to manage the environmental and social impacts of globalization. Private governance institutions, sets of rules and structures for governing without government, remain undertheorized despite an expanding literature. Questions remain about why they have arisen, what functions they serve, and whether they are effective. This article advances that literature in several ways. First, the article outlines the inherent limitations of the conventional taxonomy, which groups these institutions based on the identity of their constituent organizations (business interests, civil society, and government entities and their …